Media: Greece will receive rotten military transport planes and non-functioning frigates from US

Greece will receive rotten military transport planes and non-functioning frigates from the United States as a gift in a package deal providing for the purchase of F-35 fighter jets, according to the opinion of sources in the Greek Ministry of Defense, Report informs.

According to the Greek newspaper Dimokratia, military sources said that two C-130 military transport aircraft, promised to Greece for free in a letter from US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, have been decommissioned and are at the aviation cemetery in Nevada. In order for them to be able to fly again, Greece will have to invest more than €110 million, the newspaper writes.

The United States finds a good opportunity to get rid of them and at the same time not burden itself with processing costs, as well as for Greece to be in debt to them for the gift, the newspaper writes. If Greece agrees to accept these rotten planes until they are scrapped, it will be saddled with several tens of millions for the two planes to fly again for a while, the sources said.

As for the four LCS frigates (Littoral Combat Ship, an American ship of the coastal zone), it became known that the US Navy had abandoned these ships. There, they are considered ships that are completely out of order, so their repair and modernization will cost a lot of money. In order for them to move as a temporary solution for a five-year period, Greece will have to pay more than €70 million for each ship. The admirals of the Greek Navy, most likely, will not say "yes" to this, the publication believes. If the deal with the free transfer to Athens of two discarded C-130s and four non-functioning LCS frigates takes place, the Greek taxpayer will pay about €400 million for their repair, Dimokratia notes.